Blackscreens and FPS drops in Path Of Exile/League Of Legends.

Andriokz

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So I have intermittent black screens with these two games. I have gone through 3 graphics cards (2 970 GTX and my current 390 Radeon) by EVGA. It seems to have a very slight stutter/hang when rendering as well or when I use abilities within league.

I bought a new power supply since people said it may be a faulty power supply. I now have the EVGA G2 650 watt, but none of the problems were fixed.

My processor is a i5 4460, my RAM is 8GB Corsair Vengeance, and my MB is ASRock H97m Pro 4.

Not sure what it could be. The onboard graphics didn't do this, but after that many graphics cards and a highly rated PSU, I'm sure it's not the card or the PSU.
 
What monitor do you have?

Do you play the games in full screen mode or windowed? Does it happen in both?

Are you sure it's not a driver issue?

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download